UFO Sightings in New Mexico
1,559 UFO sightings reported in New Mexico since 1944, peaking in 2014 (110 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,559
- Span
- 1944–2029
- Peak year
- 2014 (110 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1944–2029 · peak 2014 (110 reports)
Top cities in New Mexico
Albuquerque
1965–2021 · peak 2013 (33 reports)
Santa Fe
1966–2021 · peak 2020 (17 reports)
Las Cruces
1987–2020 · peak 2017 (8 reports)
Roswell
1945–2021 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
Rio Rancho
1991–2022 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Taos
1996–2021 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Deming
1965–2020 · peak 2018 (5 reports)
Farmington
1978–2022 · peak 2011 (4 reports)
Alamogordo
1988–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Carlsbad
1982–2020 · peak 2006 (5 reports)
Silver City
1997–2021 · peak 2006 (4 reports)
Clovis
1944–2021 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Hobbs
1959–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Socorro
1996–2021 · peak 2016 (3 reports)
Belen
1998–2021 · peak 2011 (2 reports)
Gallup
2002–2017 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Truth or Consequences
2002–2020 · peak 2002 (1 reports)
Los Alamos
1944–2021 · peak 1973 (2 reports)
Los Lunas
1972–2020 · peak 2020 (2 reports)
Edgewood
2001–2021 · peak 2001 (1 reports)
Tome · NM, USA
I'm constantly seeing orange lights hovering over the bosque in los lunas.
La Luz · NM, USA
Yellowish/orange sphere seen by 3 witness in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Taos · NM, USA
2 large bright red lights flying as one object.
Edgewood · NM, USA
While driving east on I-40, a large bright white orb flew in a descending motion east to north east. I lost visual contact.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
At 18:00, standing outside, my husband witnessed a light 'zigzagging' in the air. It then proceeded to slow down and hover and start zi
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Green fireball. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))
Albuquerque · NM, USA
A craft with flashing blue and green lights on the side, with blue smoke falling before disappearing.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Bright green fireball south of Albuquerque, NM. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))
Taos · NM, USA
The sky was dark. I saw two beams of light appear, shooting from the horizon of the mountain.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Throughout the same week, I was observing a light that would light up extremely bright, so bright, beams would be around it.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
There was a circular red/orange object over the mountains east of town (Santa Fe, New Mexico ~ Sangre de Cristo Mountains).
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Changing flame and morphing balloon.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
My husband and I were driving home and my husband looked up and said, "What is that" I looked up and we pulled over so we cou
Roswell · NM, USA
2 green navigation lights were seen crossing highway 285 20 minutes north of Roswell, NM.
Gallup · NM, USA
Strange controlled beam of light emitting out of the sky. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Pie Town · NM, USA
large light in western horizon bright and unusual. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Hurley · NM, USA
I noticed this light in the middle of darkness. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Circular w/ pointed nose, bright, but sharply defined, large object at high rate of speed, traveling NNE over Sandia Crest.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Circular w/ pointed nose, bright, but sharply defined, large object, decelerating and descending over Sandia Crest, moving NNE.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
A bright light was seen not moving. Upon looking at it, the light ceased and the object proceeded to move east until disappearing. Shor
Bernalillo · NM, USA
Loud horns/trumpets flying the sky, Nothing visible. REALLY REALLY LOUD! Sounded like a frieght train, or a dragon.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Bright orange fireball moving slowly and without noise from north to south
White sands missile range · NM, USA
Larges fire ball look like a large commet with a short tale, moving from east to west farely slow for about five second and them move s
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Early morning clouded light in eastern sky...no clouds in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus. PD))
Taos · NM, USA
Large pulsating globe in eastern sky over Talpa NM